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Re: Talking Point: With Prices Rising, Are Your Gaming Habits Changing?

RobHughes

I usually buy one or two big new releases a year. The rest of the time I'm buying digital games on sale and second hand games that I find at a good price. I have a huge backlog built up.

So I'll need to spend slightly more on the few big releases I do buy, but I'm not sure my other purchasing habits will be significantly affected.

Re: Soapbox: Even If GTA Trilogy Were Perfect, I'd Rather Be Shooting Balloons And Burying Gyroids

RobHughes

Saying that GTA's gameplay can get repetitive is one thing, but putting Animal Crossing forward as a game with more variety feels absolutely wild to me. Animal Crossing is very repetitive by design - that's part of the reason people like it. You can't be sincere when you say that it's small set of item collecting tasks and landscape design offer more variety than all the things you can do in GTA.

Re: Former Star Fox Programmer Would Be Interested In Making A New Entry Without The "Gimmicks"

RobHughes

I agree with the sentiment. It feels like a lot of the Star Fox games after 64 would have been great if it weren't for a few ill-advised gimmicks.

Star Fox Adventures would have been more fun if they'd taken a more traditional approach to the combat rather than the awful staff fighting we had to put up with. It had other problems, but that was a huge one for me personally.

Star Fox Command would have been awesome if you could play with the D-pad instead of having to use touch screen controls.

Star Fox Zero I've not actually played admittedly, but the critical reception is that it would have been a much better, 'classic' Star Fox game if they hadn't implemented the dual screen aiming system.

Starlink is the best game featuring Fox that I've played in a long time and while it is great, the toys-to-life feature does adversely impact the gameplay. Even if you're not playing with the physical models, you frequently have to pause the game and switch around your ships/ weapons which really interupts the pace of the game.